Poll reform forum pointless -Luncheon

Government spokesman Dr. Roger Luncheon yesterday described a recent conference on electoral reforms as a “purposeless” exercise with less than a year remaining before general elections are held.

The event was hosted last Friday by the Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) and attracted participation from most of the opposition parties in and out of parliament. However, the governing PPP did not attend the event and the organisers relayed that they were told the party’s executives would be busy at the time the conference was being held.

Dr. Luncheon, an executive member of the PPP’s